NFRS 2024 47 - Bariatric rescues
You asked for
Please can I be provided with the following information under the Freedom of Information Act 2000:
- How many bariatric cases have your firefighters attended in the following years? By this I mean when firefighters are called for bariatric assistance by emergency services- coming to the aid of people who are otherwise unable to leave their homes due to serious obesity.
- 2021,
- 2022,
- 2023,
- 2024 (as of receipt of this email)
- For how many of these incidents were more than four vehicles required to attend? Please break this down by year.
- What was the cost to the fire service of attending these cases?
- Please break down cost by year 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024 (so far). If you cannot provide the data by annual year then please provide it by financial year.
Our Response
- How many bariatric cases have your firefighters attended in the following years? By this I mean when firefighters are called for bariatric assistance by emergency services- coming to the aid of people who are otherwise unable to leave theirhomes due to serious obesity.
- 2021,
- 2022,
- 2023,
- 2024 (as of receipt of this email)
Answer: -- 45
- 44
- 58
- 34 (as of the 24/07/2024)
- For how many of these incidents were more than four vehicles required to attend? Please break this down by year.
Answer: - of the 181 incident 106 had more than one appliance attend.- 24
- 27
- 31
- 24 (as of the 24/07/2024)
- What was the cost to the fire service of attending these cases?
Answer: - This type of data is not recorded as the data is embedded across multiplesystems and has several variables however, we have provided a general estimate.Total estimated cost: £168,303.60
- Please break down cost by year 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024 (so far). If you cannot provide the data by annual year then please provide it by financial year.
Answer: - This type of data is not recorded as the data is embedded across multiple systems and has several variables however, we have provided a general estimate.Year Sum of Cost 2021 £39,092.40 2022 £41,760.00 2023 £52,912.80 2024 £34,538.40 Grand Total £168,303.60 Costs are calculated using NFRS fees and charges for 24/25 where the charge applied is Appliances and Vehicles per hour, or part of an hour and Personnel (Full Crew) per hour, or part of an hour.